I was certain Maria was hot to trot to try on both of us at the same time to accelerate her roller coaster ride to perdition.Marsha was all caught up ...n taking care of “Little Ricky”, her present from a married Irish cop with four young ones of his own. Both Nancy and I helped Marsha with her expenses since that prick wasn’t about to give her the time of day unless she got on her knees and made him feel good.At least, she seemed happy toting around the little bundle of joy everywhere she went. Will skidded to a halt and knelt next to Caine. “He alive?”“Yeah, for now,” Caine growled.“Let me help-” Will said trying to maneuver to help lift the fallen man somewhere else.“No.” Caine said, stiff arming Will away. “His best chance is her,” he jerked his thumb over his shoulder. Cerise, the apothecary was running up with a satchel in her hands.“You know who he is?” Caine asked. Will looked at the downed man as Cerise began pulling his shirt open. Recognition dawned on him. “Fuck,” he said,. Like the old couple, I hope to share with you children and dull days, along with the exciting ones. Right now, all I can picture is your youthful, impish face framed by black hair, but I hope one day to see laugh lines mar the corners of your eyes, like those of the old woman. It would mean you have shared a happy life with me. I hope to see the gold band slightly dulled on your finger, an indication that you never took it off. It is my deepest wish to see you look at me one day as the old. . she was embarrassed and ashamed. When she told her sister he'd called they decided that it was a good night to open a bottle of wine, order a delivery pizza and just talk."You've sure been sweet lately Cheryl. It's been years since you acted as nice as you have during the last few weeks. What happened?"It was nearly ten PM and they had finished the bottle of wine and were drinking gin and orange juice. Both of them were somewhat tipsy and, perhaps because of the alcohol, they were both.